What will I learn from this course?
Expert In DNA techniques.
Requirements
There are no formal prerequisites for this course. At MIT, it is usually taken during the freshman (first) year. To succeed in this course you will need to be familiar with the fundamental concepts of atoms, chemical compounds, and chemical bonds.
Who is the target audience?
Biology Students.
Description
Fundamentals of Biology focuses on the basic principles of biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, and recombinant DNA. These principles are necessary to understanding the basic mechanisms of life and anchor the biological knowledge that is required to understand many of the challenges in everyday life, from human health and disease to loss of biodiversity and environmental quality.
Course Curriculum
- Types of Organisms, Cell Composition 16m 51s Preview
- DNA Structure and Classic experiments 7m s Preview
- Linkage and Recombination, Genetic maps 38m 55s Preview
- Basic Mechanisms of Cloning 13m 2s Preview
- Mendel's Laws 23m 20s Preview
- Mendel's Laws 2 17m 43s Preview
- Alternative Approaches to Molecular Biology 35m 2s Preview
- Transcription and Translation 15m 28s Preview
About Tutor
Eric Steven Lander (born February 3, 1957), a mathematician and geneticist, is a Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), former member of the Whitehead Institute, and founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard who has devoted his career to realizing the promise of the human genome for medicine. He is co-chair of U.S. PresidentBarack Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
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